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1 | what day should the sabbath be? | Bible general Archive 4 | Holmes | 229012 | ||
Genesis 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. With all due respect, I think the question calls for a more concise answer. If not Constantine, then who over-ruled Genesis 2:3? When did God bless and sanctify Sunday? Why did it change? Why was the change warranted? Holmes |
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2 | what day should the sabbath be? | Bible general Archive 4 | biblicalman | 229029 | ||
It should be noted that Gen 2.3 says nothing about the Sabbath. It should also be noted that there was no evening or morning on the seventh 'day'. It was a day without end. Thus the sanctifying of the seventh 'day' was not necessarily the inauguration of the Sabbath. It was rather an indication of God's blessing on the future of His creation, having finalised His creation in the previous six time periods (yom). The first actual mention of the Sabbath is in Exodus 16. Then it was fixed as the seventh day after the commencement of the manna. And it is clear that 'all the rulers' at least did not then know of the Sabbath day (verse 22). It had to be explained by Moses. And it was not based on the seventh day of creation, but on the seventh day of the gathering of the manna. It was not necessarily in line with the seventh day of creation. There is no suggestion that it was. It is true that in the ten words in Exodus 20 God related the sabbath to the seventh day of creation, but it is only used as an example. God did it thus they must do it. Scripture gives no impression that the sabbath day was observed before Exodus 16. The Sabbath thus arises out of the Mosaic Law. God blessed and sanctified the first day of the week when He raised His Son from the dead (Luke 24.1; John 20.1). This was why it changed. Was the change warranted? Certainly the early church began meeting on the first day of the week (Acts 20.7). It was also the day for setting aside money for the poor (1 Cor 16.2). This would appear to suggest that it was the day on which Christians met. We must remember that while the Sabbath could be observed by Jews by special order of the Roman empire, the same was not true for Christians. Thus many Christian slaves could not observe the sabbath. Certainly by the time of Ignatius of Antioch (110 AD) and the Epistle of Barnabas (135 AD) Sunday had replaced the Sabbath in many places, and even where it was observed it was not as a day of rest but as a day of doing good, following Jesus' example. But Paul had previously authorised this in Romans 14.5-6. And he had underlined it in Col 2.16. The shadow had been replaced by Christ. Thus the shadow no longer applied. After all Jesus was Lord of the Sabbath (Mk 2.28) and could determine how it be observed contrary to current Jewish practise. |
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